CAN WE TALK ABOUT DAVID CHOE FOR A HOT MINUTE?
piece by david choe. so in all honesty i sort of swore off this choe character after checking out his tokyo prison art show at powerhouse gallery. 3 very long walls covered in cartoon women holding their vaginas open just didn't cut it for me artistically and i thought it was stupid and annoying on top of that. it was neato because the quality of drawing was pretty good and because it was made of pee and blood and stuff, but in all i was really turned off. i was especially not digging a balcony scene where it's a little unclear if the sex the woman is having is consensual or if he's making zines about sexual assault. i'm all for sex and the celebration thereof, but not the celebration of violence against women and oppression of women. my least favorite thing is when i feel like scenester life asks me to compromise my feminism and ethics, because the answer is and remains staunchly "no." i think i can carve a path between culture and politics where the two merge and blend.
anyway, check out choe's website, because the rest of his stuff is WAY better than the stuff i saw at that opening.
posted by Antlers at 4/29/2005 01:41:00 PM
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you rock ayen!
remember the famous
direct action quote
"NO COMPROMISE!"
im back online!
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I agree with pretty much all of this. Sounds about right.
The only thing worth talking about from the whole opening was the free Guinness and the fact that he worked with his pee a little bit.
I don’t think that the “innovation” of urine justifies some 12 year olds version of home made comic book porn as an event. There just wasn’t much to most of it. I didn’t think it was all that well done. I think the subject matter was pretty terrible, but not really that offensive. (Just because I kind of took as if I found some horny kid’s sketchbook on the sidewalk. If I saw a picture of him with like huge inarticulate muscles that make him look like a ninja turtle taking from behind something that is also weirdly muscular and only noticeably female by having giant sex organs exposed, I would just think the kid is going through some kind of developmental stage and wouldn’t find it an affront to woman kind or feminism as a whole. And I certainly wouldn’t allow it to affect my status as someone who likes to drink for free in public with close friends and other drunks and I don’t think you should either.)
Let that shit hit you like rain on a slicker. Its completely inconsequential.
Maybe I’ve got faith? Faith that the whole place was just filled with scenesters who were there for drinks and not to find a new religion based off of a time in a mans life where he was just killing time until he could muster up the strength to beat off again.
And that’s the real “down time” in solitary
(HA! I got to end on a pun!)
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